can't say i know much about him, but the festival really wanted him playing that venue, and it was one of the only slots that hadn't been booked, so... hopefully he'll be alright.
(just in case that's what led you to listening to him)

not really sure about him going all country rock n roll, much preferred the ballads, but crazy seeing him going to first on the bill of a BBC local showcase to this in less than 18 months. well done lad.

The current big track just sounds like an acoustic Oasis clone... but I can see why you'd be impressed seeing the lad at just 17 in t'pub in Notts. Seems like a flavour of the month with the lamestreamers at the mo.

and my brother, my 25 year old brother whose knowledge of music from the 90s is based around the crap I subjected the household to said 'is this Cast? it sounds like fucking Cast'. The emotion I felt was strange.

you never see Jake or any of the current Nottingham buzz bands at gigs in Nottingham, or doing much of interest. I'd have much rather it be one of the Damn You bands or Spotlight Kid/Frontiers, who do actually support the local scene, to have made it if anyone from the city did.

there seems to be a lot of attention on the music scene right now, but i think it was a lot healthier a few years ago when you had Lords/Model Morning/Seachange/Amusement Parks On Fire etc. The electronic scene is lightyears above what it was back then though.

- and some of the people in the bands you mention are very close friends - not a single one of those you mention "supports the scene" in any way, and certainly are rarely seen at any gigs other than their own (no names mentioned for obvious reasons)!

so, so, so false why does he want to be American so much? The false American voice he puts on when he sings is cringe-worthy far too much a product of his influences, get your own voice Mr Bugg and stop ripping off artists far better than you.

'There's a great story about Jake Bugg that illustrates just how different he is from your average British teenager. Shortly after playing his first gig (not in some fauxhemian east London snakepit, but at his high school in Nottingham), Bugg's friends, suitably impressed, implored him to audition for Britain's Got Talent. In their defence, it's no stretch to imagine Amanda Holden violently weeping all the fluid out of her body to the strains of 'Country Song' or 'Someone Told Me', but Bugg was having none of it. "I never would have done that," he told one interviewer, "because it doesn't seem genuine, it doesn't feel natural. Authenticity is the last meaningful currency left in indie.'

you're some grumpy as fuck serial DiS poster who has taste in some fluctuatingly-decent Japanese music, who hasn't the nouse the be a decent troll, carping on about some precocious nobody who has photocopied the carrer of Ed Sheeran but erased a few obvious mistakes.